HC Deb 03 April 1969 vol 781 c658
Mr. Speaker

Statement, Mrs. Castle.

Mr. Hunt

On a point of order. Have you had any notification from the Prime Minister, Mr. Speaker, that he wishes to answer the very important question No. Q8, particularly as the Postmaster-General is present and is no doubt as anxious to hear the Answer as I am? Before we break up for the Easter Recess, are not he and I entitled to an Answer?

Mr. Speaker

If I had had such a request, I should not have called the right hon. Lady the First Secretary to make a Statement.

The Prime Minister

Further to that point of order. The reason that you have not received any representations, Mr. Speaker, is that my right hon. Friend the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary answered this precise Question in answer to my hon. Friend the Member for West Ham, North (Mr. Arthur Lewis) last Tuesday. In those circumstances, I thought representations unnecessary.

Mr. Edward M. Taylor

rose—

Mr. Speaker

Order. We cannot pursue this matter now. Mrs. Castle.